The second country visited during the Mediterranedan Tour. "Byron and Hobhouse travelled across Spain in the summer of 1809. ... The version of this journey in CHP I is concerned with
the effects of the Napoleonic annexation of Spain in 1808 ...."…
"Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a “Spartan state paper” which by his account is anything but Laconic, now the said Sparta having some years ceased to be a state, what the devil does he mean by a paper?" 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse
Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... I am to have the house for a few days of one of their great men, which was intended for Lady W[estmoreland], whose health will not permit her to cross the Straits. –"